Simon Batz
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 December 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.18m (Lyon, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Simon Batz (born 1 December 2002) is a German track and field athlete. He is a multiple time national champion in the long jump. He competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
Early life
From Offendorf in Bavaria, until the age of 16 his focus was on football, taking up athletics relatively late. He competed as a youngster for Sportfreunde Essing in Lower Bavaria. From 2018 he began to be coached by Jörg Nowy and Günter Bachhuber.[2]
Career
2023
After changing his training set-up to work with Sebastian Bayer in Mannheim, he set a new personal best of 7.91m for the long jump in Sindelfingen in February 2023. That month, he won his first German national title, winning the Indoor German Championships in Dortmund with a jump of 7.86 meters.[3]
In July 2023, he won the German National Outdoors title in the long jump with a personal best distance of 7.97 metres, ahead of Luka Herden.[4] He was runner up at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo.[5]
2024
Batz improved his personal best to 8.18m and set a new meeting record in the men’s long jump at the Meeting Indoor de Lyon on 9 February 2024.[6] He won the German Indoor Athletics Championships in Leipzig with a jump of 8.01 metres.[7]
He finished fourth in the long jump at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[8][9] He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, where he qualified for the final with a jump of 8.03 metres, before placing in ninth place overall.[10][11] Later that month, he won ahead of Luka Herden again at the German Championships in Braunschweig with a best jump of 8.04 metres.[12]
Batz competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics where he finished sixth overall with a jump of 8.07 metres.[13]
2025
In August, he jumped 7.99 metres to win the German national title in Dresden.[14] In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.[15][16]
2026
Bats won the long jump title at the German Indoor Championships on 28 February 2026, winning with a best jump of 8.09 meters. It was the best jump at the German Indoor Championships since his coach Sebastian Bayer in 2012.[17] However, his indoor season was curtailed after suffering a dislocated shoulder.[18]
Personal life
He studies at the University of Heidelberg in economics and politics.[3]
References
- ^ "Simon Batz". World Athletics. 3 March 2024.
- ^ Fischer, Johannes (27 March 2021). "Teenager disgraces long jump elite". Sport1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Simon Batz – Flugversuche eines Quereinsteigers". Leichtathletik. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "German National Championships Results". World Athletics. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Finnish stars Kosonen and Vanninen strike gold for the hosts in Espoo 2023". European Athletics. 14 July 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Batz lands big personal best in Lyon". European Athletics. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Long jump star Malaika Mihambo flies to the title again". Spiegel. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024 men's long jump final results". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Tentoglou grabs gold again with long jump victory in Glasgow". World Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Championship". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
- ^ "DLV vergibt weitere EM-Startplätze für Rom an Normerfüller und Staffelmitglieder". Leichtathletik. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
- ^ "Men's Long jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
- ^ "WM-Normen im Sprint-Showdown sorgen für krönenden Tages-Abschluss". Leichtathletik. 28 Feb 2026. Retrieved 28 Feb 2026.
- ^ "Flash news on Friday with snippets from the Indoor World Championships". Leichtathletik. 20 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.